humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 11hThree patterns hide in most dashboards. Protective omission. Inflated adjacency. Strategic vagueness. Together they produce a system with the appearance of rigor and the function of protection. hubs.ly/Q04ymN330 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 14hConvenient Lie #1: "Innovation is driving growth" Inconvenient Truth: Companies discovered they can raise prices, fire people, and call it "efficiency." We see this. We choose not to connect the dots. Read the new issue> hubs.ly/Q04ymMVT0 #Psychology #EconomicTruth #Denial 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 16hGen Z distrusts AI at work and embraces it in their personal lives. The contradiction is not a quirk. It is a signal. Ryan Vet and I unpack this in the new episode of the Human Factor Podcast. Listen/watch wherever you get podcasts. #GenZ #AI #FutureOfWork #Leadership #RyanVet 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 20hThe full ninety-day sequence from Issue 277 fits on one page. The Portfolio Audit, the Intelligence Session questions, and the commitment criteria. Download: hubs.ly/Q04ymMHy0 #TransformationTheater 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 21hCan you reject change? Then why does every model end in acceptance? Grant Van Ulbrich asked a room of professors. The room went silent. S3 E35: hubs.ly/Q04ykXWl0 #HumanFactorPodcast 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 22hA breached contract is not restored by the next promise. It is restored by acknowledgment, and then by evidence of responsiveness. Listen: hubs.ly/Q04ymMFw0 #Trust #HumanFactorPodcast 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Every senior leader should carry one metric they did not choose, designed by someone whose identity is not invested in the outcome. The measure they cannot dismiss when it moves the wrong way. That is where learning starts. hubs.ly/Q04ymMtH0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026The person who speaks most confidently in your meeting may understand the topic least. The person with the most valuable perspective may be staying quiet. This isn't cynicism. It's psychology. hubs.ly/Q04ymMrw0 #OrganizationalBehavior #ChangeLeadership #confidence 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Three drivers decide whether a communication moves someone. Identity based motivation. Trust architecture. Behavioral activation. None of them fire on data or craft alone. The Human Factor Podcast. New episode out now. #BehavioralScience #Communications 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Learning is not what an organization knows. It is what it does differently because of what it knows. New issue of Ideas and Innovations: Organizational Memory Loss Read it → hubs.ly/Q04ymMh70 #Leadership #Management #HumanFactor #OrganizationalLearning #memory #knowing 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026By the nature of where you sit in an organization, you are very, very close to an elephant. Jenny Vazquez-Newsum on why leaders take that well once they hear it is the position, not the person. Episode 036. Listen: hubs.ly/Q04yp0V-0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Forgetting is built into how organizations work. Turnover, reorganization, and tool churn quietly erase what learning put in place. Organizational memory is a system, not a habit. Read more: hubs.ly/Q04ymM210 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Organizational knowledge creates a dual reality: priceless assets AND powerful barriers to change. Veteran employees' capabilities ironically create the fiercest obstacles to transformation efforts. #TransformationPsychology #OrganizationalChange hubs.ly/Q04ym_7C0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A Stanford analysis ran 91 English proficiency essays through seven AI detectors. On average 61 percent came back flagged as machine written. Every one was written by a student working in a second language. #AIDetection #HigherEd hubs.ly/Q04ymLRW0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We have spent years asking whether AI is ready for us. Kevin Novak reframes the question in this solo episode of the Human Factor Podcast. Watch the full episode. Subscribe at hubs.ly/Q04ymLRp0. #TheReadinessIllusion #AIAgents #AIAdoption #Leadership 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Every person in your organization is operating under a contract nobody signed. Transformation almost always rewrites that contract unilaterally. Explore this week's issue. Read more: hubs.ly/Q04ymLLd0 #Leadership #ChangeManagement #Transformation #OrganizationalPsychology 010
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Ethics, every year. Leadership, every year. Change? Two people in HR. Grant Van Ulbrich in twenty seconds on The Human Factor Podcast. S3 E35: hubs.ly/Q04ykW9c0 #HumanFactorPodcast 010
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Intelligence does not immunize leaders against bias. It often makes the rationalizations more convincing. Why smart people make bad decisions, and why the smartest rooms miss the obvious. Read more: hubs.ly/Q04ymLJl0 010
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 12/10/2026A less precise but identity-aware measurement system will outperform a more precise but identity-protected one. It surfaces problems while they are still solvable, not after the damage is impossible to hide. hubs.ly/Q04ymLCf0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026You got the green light in the meeting. 45 minutes later, three leaders quietly rewrote the plan without you. Learn where real decisions happen. Issue 252 explores what to do about it. #Leadership #ChangeManagement #OrganizationalChange #HumanFactor hubs.ly/Q04ymLw90 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026No challenge is just a people challenge. It is also a systems challenge. Jenny Vazquez-Newsum on why the training only works if the Monday after is designed for it. Episode 036: The Misread. Listen: hubs.ly/Q04ynZ330 010
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Thirty-one episodes taught one lesson: diagnosis is not practice. Season 3 of the Human Factor Podcast arrives in September, and it is about the practice. Listen: hubs.ly/Q04ymLjJ0 #HumanFactorPodcast #Transformation 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Silence in your organization is not the absence of opinion. It is the presence of training. People learned exactly what happens when they speak. Read more: hubs.ly/Q04ymLgh0 #PsychologicalSafety #Culture #Leadership 010
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The question is not whether AI can write a warmer note than you can. It almost certainly can. The question is whether you still want to be the kind of leader whose people never have to wonder. #TheEmpathyOutsource #HumanFactor #Leadership #empathy #emotion hubs.ly/Q04ymLd90 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Carolyn Keene never existed. A syndicate invented her in 1929 and paid Mildred Wirt Benson $125 for the first Nancy Drew manuscript under a contract requiring her silence. Nobody scanned those pages. It was called collaboration. #Publishing #AI hubs.ly/Q04ymL730 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026We are not only asking whether to trust the agent. We are asking whether to trust ourselves. The full episode of the Human Factor Podcast is out now. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. #TheReadinessIllusion #AIAgents #AutomationBias #FutureOfWork #Leadership 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Your strategy assumes conditions somebody chose. Rising costs, shifting labor, accelerating tools: nobody chose these. Planning frameworks fail when there is no stable ground to plan from. Read more: hubs.ly/Q04ymKpd0 #Leadership #Strategy #HumanFactor 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026What happens if the people can actually think for themselves? A CHRO asked it as a joke. Grant Van Ulbrich's answer: congratulations, that is a great place to be. S3 E35: hubs.ly/Q04ykVlj0 #HumanFactorPodcast #Leadership 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Organizations reward focus and call it strategy. But tunnel vision filters out the signals that matter most during change. What is your organization choosing not to see? Read more: hubs.ly/Q04ymKhk0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Have you heard of the LLM Fallacy? In the conclusion of my Artificial Understanding series, I explore how this compounds a comprehension gap we arent aware of. hubs.ly/Q04ymKgR0 #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AILiteracy #CriticalThinking #Leadership 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Most organizations score between six and twelve on the Transformation Theater Diagnostic. One page: six statements to score your organization and twelve early warning signs of transformation fatigue. Free download: hubs.ly/Q04ymK5M0 #TransformationTheater 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The tools are powerful. They are not autonomous. The distance between those two words is filled with judgment, context, supervision, and error recovery. New episode of the Human Factor Podcast is out. #ReadinessIllusion #AIAgents #AIAdoption #ArtificialIntelligence #Leadership 010
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026How Do You and Your Organization Master the Art of Storytelling? #transformation #lifestages #cxo #customerexperience #sharedexperience #heroes #villains #birth #death #narrative #businessstrategy #work hubs.ly/Q04ymJ-70 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026We always think large change takes large intervention. It doesn't. Small investments made with care add up and change the larger systems. One decision in a thousand can change what comes after. Tina Berger, S3 E34: hubs.ly/Q04y4KTZ0 #HumanFactorPodcast #Leadership 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026AI predicts. It does not understand. The distance between the two is where human judgment still lives, and where organizations keep getting the division of labor wrong. Artificial Understanding, Part 1. Read more: hubs.ly/Q04ymJWy0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The same strategy lands entirely differently in an organization that has watched its leaders stop things, hear things, and keep one commitment slowly. Read more: hubs.ly/Q04ym_2B0 #Leadership #Trust 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026New episode. A meeting gets called about the initiative that is not landing, and somebody says the word: resistance. With one word the problem moves from the organization to the people inside it. Episode 036 with Jenny Vazquez-Newsum. Listen: hubs.ly/Q04ynRz00 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026OpenAI built an AI text detector. It caught 26 percent of AI writing and wrongly flagged 9 percent of human writing. It was pulled after seven months. The company that knows these models best could not build a reliable detector. #AIDetection #AI hubs.ly/Q04ymJqk0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Embrace the outliers. Check your bias. Think like people think, not like your organization thinks. And remember, skepticism is not cynicism. Deborah Patton and Justin Thorp on the Human Factor Podcast. New episode out now. #HumanFactorPodcast #Leadership #Curiosity 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Why Does a Sense of Belonging Matter More Than Ever? #belonging #sharedpurpose #selfconception #contribution #valueproposition #workforce #transformation #change #silos #perception #selfidentification hubs.ly/Q04ymJ7b0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026All of us are too close to an elephant somewhere. The higher you sit in an organization, the closer you are. The people who can see the whole thing are the ones standing back, and they are the ones the organization listens to least. hubs.ly/Q04zfHcw0 #friction #culture 020
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Trust migrates quietly. First we verify what the machine produces, then we defer to it. I call it the Confidence Transfer, and it is how organizational expertise erodes without anyone deciding to let it go. Read more: hubs.ly/Q04ymJ0S0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When does a solid plan get stuck? Your strategy seems sound on paper. Your group is talented and driven. Your aim is unmistakable. Yet momentum slows? Four concealed blockers that leaders commonly dismiss are likely involved...read this week's piece:... hubs.ly/Q04ymHRF0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Someone you haven't spoken with in 3 years asks for an introduction. You were once genuine colleagues who supported each other. Now you hesitate. This is the relationship decay rate at work. 🧵 on why your professional network is quietly eroding: hubs.ly/Q04ymHHV0 010
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Agents talking to agents. Writers optimizing for the machine instead of the human. As automation rises, the value of authentic craft rises with it. Always human, never AI. Deborah Patton and Justin Thorp on the Human Factor Podcast. #HumanFactorPodcast #AI #Communications 010
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Change Is a Team Sport: We All Play a Role, 2040’s Ideas and Innovations, Issue 118 #change Teamwork #sharedpurpose #business #digitaltransformation #strategy #humanity #workforce #work2024 #resistance #silence #roles #leadership #accountability hubs.ly/Q04ymHvW0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026They think their data is as available as public data. It isn't. AI looks simple because we use ChatGPT. Enterprise data has to be made ready, and the business case comes before the tool. Tina Berger, S3 E34: hubs.ly/Q04y4KmV0 #HumanFactorPodcast #AI 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Chris Argyris called it skilled incompetence. The most accomplished professionals are often the most skilled at discrediting information that threatens their identity. Measurement is where this plays out most quietly. hubs.ly/Q04ymHlW0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Five generations. Shared workspace. Endless mentoring potential. Check out for the age-diverse leadership framework helping executives manage this intricate scenario. #ManagementTips #FutureOfWork #ProfessionalDevelopment hubs.ly/Q04ymHgc0 000
humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social @humanfactorpodcast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Your leading change agent departed after a year and a half. The reason wasn't a better opportunity. She experienced complete depletion. The project was succeeding brilliantly. However, no one noticed her exhaustion. This week: the overlooked burnout phe... hubs.ly/Q04ymGWd0 000